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So, open water training may include a tour of the "cavern zone" in North Florida? Then right after the course it's OK for the instructor to take them over to this place Royal springs, issue them a light and then cut them loose?? How far in did they get. -----Original Message----- From: "Charles Ayash"<cagraphics@mi*.co*> To: "terry michael"<OEA51@go*.co*> Date: Thu Aug 02 06:56:09 PDT 2001 Subject: Re: cement pig >I was at Ginnie last Saturday and there were a group of about 8 >divers in the Devils Spring run. > >None had lights and I am guessing that they were just playing in the Run >and the basin of the Ear. > >Prior to becoming Cave Certified I would do the same dive and also >scuba downstream back to Ginnie Spring. > >Ginnie Cavern is also a favorite for OW instructors. > >A OW Diver is allowed a light at Ginnie Cavern but if shows up at the Devils >then Security will turn them back. > >I hope this reply is not off base on the subject. > >Charlie > >At 04:02 AM 8/2/2001 -0700, you wrote: >>Yes, I think that was the one. So what's the deal are open water students >getting certified open water doing dives in the overhead at Genie springs >camping grounds? If so is that a contributory factor in these deaths? >> >>Or where these people just committing suicide? >> >> >>-----Original Message----- >>From: "David E. Smith"<dsmith218@ho*.co*> >>To: "terry michael"<OEA51@go*.co*> >>Date: Wed Aug 01 19:07:49 PDT 2001 >>Subject: Re: cement pig >> >>>The story about the divers (and the pig) sounds like Royal Springs. >>> >>>dsmith218@ho*.co* >>>ICQ# 25409809 >>> >>>Moderation is for the poor, and the healthy...of which I am neither. - >>>Polver >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>-----Original Message----- >>>From: terry michael [mailto:OEA51@go*.co*] >>>Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 10:00 AM >>>To: techdiver@aquanaut.com >>>Subject: cement pig >>> >>> >>>I was reading this article in the NSS journal about a tragic cave fatality >>>involving two freshly certified OW divers who got killed on their very first >>>"real dive" and then had to be recovered. According to the article the >>>instructor invited them along to retrieve a cement pig, from a spring in >>>north Florida. They were apparently given one light and then preceded to >>>swim into the cave and got lost and killed. The instructor that just >>>certified them over at called Genie Springs was at the site at the time but >>>was busy with another diver who was having trouble equalizing his ears. The >>>other two must have decided to explore the cavern at some point with the >>>single light between them. So my question is this: do the instructors take >>>the OW students into the overhead during the open water course at Genie >>>Springs camping resort? If so how does that work? Just curious. >>>Thanx >>> >>> >>>___________________________________________________ >>>GO.com Mail >>>Get Your Free, Private E-mail at http://mail.go.com >>> >>> >>>-- >>>Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. >>>Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'. >>> >> >> >>___________________________________________________ >>GO.com Mail >>Get Your Free, Private E-mail at http://mail.go.com >> >> >>-- >>Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. >>Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'. >> > ___________________________________________________ GO.com Mail Get Your Free, Private E-mail at http://mail.go.com -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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